partnership of humans and Earth, partnership harmony of Creation and THE ONE. Hence, we

see the "Path of Life" as a way of cooperation; the "Path of Death" as a way of violence with all its

ego-absorption.

The "Path of Life" requires commitment to spiritual practice which nudges us toward ego-less-ness,

so that our true Self or Essence can be "head of the house" rather than Ego. Ego needs to be the

servant of True Self or Essence rather than the other way around. There is abundant evidence that

when ego is in "control" we are in deep trouble - clinging, climbing, claiming,

controlling...DESTROYING! So "choose life, that you may live!"...indeed have life in abundance!!

[For the above information on the use of gematria in the Greek text of the Synoptic Gospels, I am deeply grateful to Margaret Starbird in her book: Goddess In The Gospels: Reclaiming the Sacred Feminine, Bear and Company Publishing, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1998, appendix one and two.]